“Mental object, ie mobject” lmao Jeffrey was on the same tip as Silicon Valley re; “the number of cubes you can spin in your mind’s eye measures your human potential”

It took less than a day for Megyn Kelly to start doing this dance

It is not coincidence that the ascendancy of fascism has coincided with a resurgence of interest in virtue ethics, moral hygiene in culture and aesthetics, race science, and embrace of the most arcane avenues of rule-bound religious tradition. All of these things insist on natural design

This is the integrated worldview by which one of my relatives, a preacher in North Carolina, both protested not to enter a room with an unaccompanied woman, and told me to become a high school principal because “well, you know, haha”

Logically, any impulse presumed natural cannot be truly eliminated or precluded, only repressed by threat of consequence; in privacy, all that exists against impulse is the individual will. Lapse is thus a question of whether one chose to indulge the natural, or “lost themselves”.

What we call “Pedocon theory” is really the equally ancient rejoinder to the ancient Ring of Gyges fable, wherein a guy with invisibility immediately becomes a psychopath: Presuming an action as inevitable by dint of opportunity requires only that you can see yourself doing it.

This is what ppl are arguing when they reference “locker room talk”. It is the principle that the further from public scrutiny you go, the more ppl become themselves. Locker rooms are the second sacred space where men must be allowed their natural selves; the first space is their interiority.

In this case, there is obviously a conspicuous borderland of social etiquette in which men lusting after children is “natural” — not necessarily GOOD, but integral to the purpose of man-ness in some preternatural way. Thus it is both to be expected, and seen on some level as an innocent indulgence

That she ousted a decently popular mayor with all the endorsements is just another indicator of how much housing costs are driving politics right now, often scrambling coalitions and party boundaries.

"Wilson, though, took note of a citywide vote in favor of new taxes on high-paying companies for publicly funded and owned housing and saw an opening. She declared her run for mayor shortly after." Good to be running this/any experiment to get more housing.

My content creation skills grow stronger every week! Before you know it, I'll be able to actually look at the camera the whole time. Part 1 of 2

I built the costco house for the cats

Have none of you ever been or known a teenage girl, because like

When I was barely 16 a Johns Hopkins econ professor who was friends with Larry Summers would pay to put me up in the Mayflower and come “visit.” Trying to match the level of surprise everyone else seems to have about the extent of pedophilia among powerful men and failing mightily.

genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

steam machine de la abuela

jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.

The Epstein emails are like the Yellow King of correspondence. Anybody reading them all is careening into madness

"There are people who have been living in those units for five years, eight years. No one can wrap their head around the idea that HUD is about to kick 170,000 vulnerable people out of their homes. People don't know what's about to hit them." — Ann Oliva, National Alliance to End Homelessness

Tell me more about Jed, who teaches crim law at Yale. What are three other things about him

No wait let's hear him out.

one of my favorite sketchbook comics, anime press conference

most on the nose “he’s on a mission from god” reference in recorded history

mumsnet, now w/ real names

At the end of the day, I don't believe a GOP led by the Fuentes faction can win elections. And if I'm wrong about that, then America deserves to be destroyed.

finally had to do this for work. i look forward to updating it every other week or so

they could send Kristof in undercover, break this one wide open

Since 2017, people have had a pretty good idea who was compromised with respect to Jeffrey Epstein. The issue hasn't been so much a lack of knowledge about individuals, but institutions like the New York Times covering up their own complicity and, frankly, the leaders of both political parties.

Best reason to go off the record.

The best book about organizing I've ever read.

this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.

A question for book authors: when you compress interviews, can you tell if the reporter hasn’t read the book? Also, do you resent it if they haven’t?

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

this is bait and so it’s important not to get too worked up about it. but a couple notes about how dishonest it is. (1) implies all the docs out today are related to the discharge petition; they’re not. and the petition itself remains unlikely to generate new documents for the public.

Now the Abundance people will embrace Affordability as long as no one's ever specific about what should be affordable or how you go about doing that

“Abundance” was an attempt to prevent anyone from campaigning on “how bout u afford things” that failed

Dems should not have caved.

Disappointed with Sydney Sweeney. Not that I thought she was woke. I just believed she was a dedicated bag getter. Now her strongest move is probably becoming some billionaire oil guy's wife. Boring

Check out that line up! Wicked excited to have a story in the latest issue of @3lobedmag.com!!! My story is available on the 18th, but you can read the first 3 stories right now :)

SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

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fun crimes last night.. donald . nutso on tv cant wait for further crimes,.. let me know if i can help you avoid justice slippery hugs - Clyde Newsanchorman

I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it

99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”